GWD Open Bible with Sunshine

GOD’S WORD DAILY

VOLUME 1, ISSUE 175                                                             AUGUST 8, 2002

     

JESUS CHRIST:
The Foundation of Our Faith

     ONE KEY TO JOY

 
One key to joy is love. Smack dab in the middle of a Scripture section about love, Jesus mentions why he spoke about love: so the disciples' joy would continue and it would be full.

Who doesn't desire to continue to stay in joy? I know I don't like living on a mood swing roller coaster: up one minute, down the next. If I want to maintain my joy, if I want my joy completely crammed up inside of me, ready to overflow, then I need to love others, live in love and lay down my life, commit my life, for others' benefit.

 

John 13:34, 35

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

 

Did Jesus live his life out for his own benefit, or the benefit of mankind? He was not so wrapped up in himself as I tend to become wrapped up into my self. It is written, he who loves his life will lose it and he who loses his life for Christ's sake will find it. This is why I decided to live my life and use my gifts and talents to help God's people and not to serve my self. I am much more thankful for what I have now and I am joyous most of the time. No longer do I suffer from depression.

 

John 15:9-13

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

 

As Jesus taught, let us continue in the love of God, and love one another. May we learn more and more how to love others like Jesus Christ loved us and then commit ourselves to the doing of it. We will have the fruit of joy. Amen.

 

-Carol Kenreigh

REQUESTS

 

COMMENTS

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

- Abraham Lincoln

Thanks for the reminder to love the unloveable even in challenging circumstances. I have been maligned and slandered by an enemy lately and I continue to love her anyway. What have I got to lose? -KH

Thanks Carol, I am reading a good book right now that goes exactly along with what you are saying-"Tramp for the Lord"by Corrie Ten Boom. You take care. God Bless.- CATHY

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